The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1996)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the Western Pacific between November 23, 1996 and December 2, 1996, and made landfall.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
November 23, 1996 to December 2, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP401996

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Nov 24, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 23, 00:008.0N 151.0E15 ktNot reported
Nov 23, 06:008.2N 150.8E15 ktNot reported
Nov 23, 12:008.6N 150.4E15 ktNot reported
Nov 23, 18:009.2N 149.7E15 ktNot reported
Nov 24, 00:0010.0N 148.6E15 ktNot reported
Nov 24, 06:0010.9N 147.4E15 ktNot reported
Nov 24, 12:0011.6N 146.1E20 ktNot reported
Nov 24, 18:0012.3N 144.8E20 ktNot reported
Nov 25, 00:0013.4N 143.6E20 ktNot reported
Nov 25, 06:0014.9N 142.9E20 ktNot reported
Nov 25, 12:0016.1N 142.4E25 ktNot reported
Nov 25, 18:0017.0N 141.7E25 ktNot reported
Nov 26, 00:0017.5N 141.0E25 ktNot reported
Nov 26, 06:0017.8N 140.3E25 ktNot reported
Nov 26, 12:0018.1N 139.6E25 ktNot reported
Nov 26, 18:0018.3N 139.0E25 ktNot reported
Nov 27, 00:0018.3N 138.5E25 ktNot reported
Nov 27, 06:0018.1N 138.1E25 ktNot reported
Nov 27, 12:0017.7N 137.7E20 ktNot reported
Nov 27, 18:0017.0N 137.0E20 ktNot reported
Nov 28, 00:0016.1N 135.9E20 ktNot reported
Nov 28, 06:0015.7N 134.5E25 ktNot reported
Nov 28, 12:0015.8N 133.2E25 ktNot reported
Nov 28, 18:0016.0N 132.1E25 ktNot reported
Nov 29, 00:0015.9N 131.2E25 ktNot reported
Nov 29, 06:0015.3N 130.6E25 ktNot reported
Nov 29, 12:0014.5N 130.4E25 ktNot reported
Nov 29, 18:0014.0N 129.9E25 ktNot reported
Nov 30, 00:0013.7N 129.3E25 ktNot reported
Nov 30, 06:0013.4N 128.6E25 ktNot reported
Nov 30, 12:0013.1N 127.8E25 ktNot reported
Nov 30, 18:0012.7N 127.0E25 ktNot reported
Dec 1, 00:0012.0N 126.3E20 ktNot reported
Dec 1, 06:0011.0N 126.0E20 ktNot reported
Dec 1, 12:0010.0N 125.8E20 ktNot reported
Dec 1, 18:009.2N 125.7E15 ktNot reported
Dec 2, 00:008.5N 125.6E10 ktNot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1996

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.